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With the opening of Blackhawks training camp set for Friday, beat reporter Chris Kuc answers readers’ questions. Who will be removed from the roster to get the Blackhawks under the NHL’s salary cap? -- Nicky S. Gurnee This is clearly the burning question of the offseason and you’re not alone in asking. The Hawks sit around $1.4 million over the cap. If they decide top prospect Teuvo Teravainen will be on the roster to start the season, the Hawks would be over by around $2.2 million. So, that means someone on the roster has to go. Perhaps only general manager Stan Bowman knows who that will be and it’s possible even he doesn’t as he weighs offers from other...

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With the opening of Blackhawks training camp set for Friday, beat reporter Chris Kuc answers readers’ questions.
Who will be removed from the roster to get the Blackhawks under the NHL’s salary cap? -- Nicky S. Gurnee
This is clearly the burning...

Trying to capture the spirit of the thing that was the Blackhawks’ choke in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals that ended their Stanley Cup defense:
1. The Hawks need a second-line center. Here we go again. If it takes trading, say, Brent Seabrook...

The defending Stanley Cup champions are still breathing and chasing history.
The Blackhawks willed themselves to a 5-4 victory over the Kings in double overtime in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals Wednesday night at the United Center to keep their...

Bryan Bickell swung the bat with authority, and Patrick Sharp said Friday's experience brought back memories of playing baseball during his youth.
The pair joined Blackhawks teammates Michal Handzus and Sheldon Brookbank to take batting practice at...

The price the Blackhawks paid was cheap enough for a veteran center with good Corsi and Fenwick numbers.
But some of my initial problems with Brad Richards are he’s 34 and I’m not sure he can can keep up in a Western Conference that is better and...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Players and coaches on both sides have gone out of their way to stress that the Wild are not the same team the Blackhawks handled easily in the first round of the NHL playoffs last season.
The Wild continued to drive that point home...

Trying to capture the spirit of the thing after the Blackhawks’ 4-3 win in Los Angeles that created an improbable Game 7 on Sunday:
1. Patrick Kane struggled in last year’s Western Conference finals, and then found himself skating with Jonathan Toews and...

The Blackhawks tried to choke away Game 5 of their Western Conference finals against the Kings.
Not only the game, but they also tried to choke away their season and their shot at repeating as Stanley Cup champions.
The Hawks took a 2-0 lead less than...

The Blackhawks have 10 Olympians on their playoff roster for the Western Conference finals, and Kings second-liners Jeff Carter, Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson are owning them. Owning every shift. Owning this series.
Carter and young wingers kids are...

The Kings thought they were playing in the Western Conference finals.
But it appears they spent the last two games finding out they’re spectators at the Patrick Kane Invitational.
Kane managed just one point in the first four games of this series, a...

Hours before the puck was dropped for Game 3, Duncan Keith and Bryan Bickell were already playing defense.
The veterans stood in the dressing room and defended their reputations, but once the action got underway it was goaltender Corey Crawford who put...

In a world where Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane are healthy, the Blackhawks are the best puck-possession team in the NHL.
They are offensive monsters. They play keepaway up and down the ice. Opponents can get the puck back when they fish it out of their...

Michal Handzus is sure of one thing: He wants to play in the NHL next season.
What he isn’t sure of is which team — if any — will take a chance on a 37-year-old center coming off a disappointing season, and it apparently won’t be the Blackhawks. TSN...

Trying to capture the spirit of the thing that was either the Blackhawks’ 2013-14 postmortem or the 2014-15 pregame show, pick one:
1. Maybe Stan Bowman is telling the truth, or maybe he’s lying.
“I don’t think we’re going to have wholesale changes,’’...

I don’t know what the Blackhawks are going to do in free agency to fix their blown chance at another Stanley Cup, but because I’m a pleaser, not a teaser, I’m here to help with a list of 10 (mostly) unrestricted free agents:
1. Center Paul Stastny: A...

Trying to capture the spirit of the thing after the Blackhawks' 4-3 loss Saturday to the Kings in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals:
✓ Patrick Kane shoveled the puck ahead to Michal Handzus at the Kings line. The play died, then Handzus lost his...

I was going to write about which players the Blackhawks should trade, and I still might.
But not now.
Not after that third period.
The Hawks were down a goal, they were on Detroit ice, and they were 20 minutes from being booted from the Stanley Cup...

The Blackhawks were the better team entering their second-round playoff series against Detroit.
It just took them seven painful games to prove it, right down to an excruciating and exhilarating Game 7.
No, wait, even that wasn’t enough. It took Game 8...

Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville changed lines.
Of course, Quenneville changed lines. That’s what he does when things get dire, and sometimes even when they don’t.
But in the second period of Game 4 of the Western Conference finals in Los Angeles, the...

The Bruins are pounding the Blackhawks physically.
They are killing the Hawks at the faceoff circle.
They are beating them on the scoreboard.
Hat trick. In fact, that’s the dead-bang hat trick that guarantees losing a Stanley Cup Final.
Playoff hockey...